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This article offers a historical account of how the execution of war prisoners became a normative Islamic legal opinion in the medieval era after having been prohibited in late antiquity.

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This page is a summary of: Early Islamic Legal-Historical Precedents: Prisoners of War, Law and History Review, January 2008, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0738248000002558.
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